New Methods of Reflector Design

Harald Ries, Julius Muschaweck, and Andreas Timinger

Illumination optics seeks to produce a desired distribution of light on a given target surface,starting from a source of known characteristics. Illumination optics differs from the optical design of imaging systems in that images are not required in the illumination system—the formation of images, in fact, is usually to be avoided.

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